Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
drainage problems: The Australian New South Wales Land and Environment Court has ordered Arenco Propriety Limited, a construction company, to pay around US $20,000 towards rehabilitation work at Bathurst mine after it pumped water into a stormwater drainage system in the area. It pumped 18,600 litres of water containing sediment …
people from about 104 villages of Thane district near Mumbai have threatened to break valves of the pipeline supplying water to the metropolis and bring the city's water supply to a halt. The reason: all their water sources have been completely diverted to Mumbai and they are facing acute drinking …
The agriculture minister told parliament last week that 100,000 farmers had committed suicide from 1998 to 2003, a period for which his government had data. This means 45 farmers killed themselves each day across the country. There is now information that suicides may be on the increase. In the Vidarbha …
new polio cases: At least 17 polio cases have surfaced in India, in the first four months of 2006, making it the second most polio-prone country in the world. The cases occurred in two states: 12 in Uttar Pradesh and five in Bihar. What worries health experts is the risk …
Maharashtra government has recently passed the controversial bill amending the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 1963. The amendment has paved way for contract farming in the state, which, the government claims, will boost the food processing industry and increase export of agricultural produce. Addressing doubts raised by …
DRIVING into Guhagar (Maharashtra), in the shadows of India's largest power unit, on a Monday is like entering a ghost town. Everything is shut because it is the weekly power-cut day. On other days, there's load shedding for nearly six hours. Still, in many other ways, Guhagar is returning to …
Here is a social drama with the most complex of plots. The dramatis personae of the Sardar Sarovar Project (ssp): four state governments with a multiplicity of departments; threea Union ministries with ministers, bureaucrats and technocrats; a tribunal of three retired high court judges that gave an
ONE accusation that is flung at the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) consistently is that the organisation is against the Sardar Sarovar dam. While this was true at one time, the NBA has been forced to accept the existence of the dam and it no longer denounces its construction. Instead, its …
ON March 8, the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) gave the green signal to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam from 110.64 metres to 121.92 m. The permission was given based on the recommendation of the Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R&R;) sub-group of the NCA, which said that all those …
1947: The Central Waterways Irrigation and Navigation Commission, acting on the request of the Central Provinces, Berar (now part of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra) and the Government of Bombay, begins a study of the Navagram project (renamed Sardar Sarovar Project in 1978) for developing the Narmada river system. (In …
Imampur village is in Nagar taluka of Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, a rain shadow area. For more than two years now, the agriculture department has been implementing a watershed project here, using egs money. But when dte visited Imampur, it found out that while an entire hillock was covered with continuous …
Travel across Melghat, and discussions with forest officials and local Korku tribals will confirm the deepest fears: egs cannot succeed wherever there are huge tracts of forest land, tracts where also some of the country's poorest people live. "Melghat is spread in Dharni and Chikaldara taluka s of Amravati district, …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20060430/29-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=320,height=300,scrollbars=yes") } Maharashtra has spent over Rs 10,824 crore on its egs programme from 1975 to 2005, covering 27,831 gram panchayats in its 33 districts. This means on an average, Rs 39 lakh (Rs 3,888,786) has been spent on each gram panchayat. Starting at Rs …
The Employment Guarantee Scheme (egs) is supported by the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Act (mega), 1977 that provides a legal guarantee (and not mere assurance) for work to its rural population all throughout the year. As per the act, any person above 18 years of age in rural Maharashtra (and class …
The concept of creating employment in public works is not new for the rest of the country, because the Maharashtra model of rural employment has existed since the 1970s. The most critical difference now is that people's entitlement, by law, to employment, is now mandated through nrega for the entire …
The Concerned Citizen's Commission, a coalition of citizens groups, has submitted its enquiry report on the Mumbai deluge of July 26, 2005. The report holds poor drainage, sanitation and waste management system to be primarily responsible for the floods. But the Maharashtra government is yet to pay heed to the …
